Due to the traffic backup caused by yesterday's fatal car crash on the Bay Bridge, it seems that a woman popped out a kid. According to the Examiner:

As a result of the traffic jam, a woman pulled off the road to give birth a few hours after the accident. The mother-to-be was traveling toward San Francisco at 3:35 p.m. when she detoured into the toll plaza’s left administrative parking lot, Chase said.

Wow. Did she have the kid right there in the parking lot? Judging by the article, we're not sure. But if she did: cool. The only thing missing were a few anorexics and a Lilith Fair-ish score for a very special episode of Grey's Anatomy.

But, and we hate to admit it, they sure do look pretty together. (The image above has been set as our desktop background!) But as attractive as oil and water looks on rain-soaked driveways and in Carmel-y art pieces, it's not worth it when it's in our Bay. It tends to cause inexcusable damage. (Where, like, fish and mermaids and stuff totally die, you know.) Take, for example, this morning's container ship that rammed into the Bay Bridge.

Rob Roberts, a lieutenant with the state Department of Fish and Game, claims that the a total of 140 gallons of fuel spilled from today's ship/Bay Bridge smash. It will take about a month to clean up, and by midday today, some fuel had already reached Pier One [under the Embarcadero] in San Francisco. Read more about it here.

More pictures of the oil spillage after the jump.


image credit: Bob Brigham

Egads!

The west span of the Bay Bridge was struck this morning by a container ship, the Cosco Busan. According to the Chronicle, "Coast Guard officials said the incident was not serious enough to merit a bridge closure." Still, that looks like some serious damage.

A witness on the ship claims that the Cosco struck the second tower west of Yerba Buena Island, and says the the extent of the damage isn't known. If it collapses into the Bay, well, we guess we'll know. But seeing as how the Coast Guard has given the all-clear, we doubt that that will happen.

Also, some oil was reported to have come out of the ship after impact, but only for a brief period of time, according to ABC 7. The oil flow, though, has since been plugged up. And there are no reports of any injuries. So...yay. Except, of course, for the supposedly minor oil spill. We'll see.